The Bronx District Attorney’s office handed over the videos to Gonzalez’s defense attorney last week after repeated requests for the evidence, according to the lawyer, Cesar Gonzalez Jr., who is not related to his client.

“The police cruiser made a beeline for the two riders,” the lawyer said, adding that he planned to show much of the footage in court. “I think the video speaks for itself.”

Gonzalez is suing the NYPD for $20 million, claiming the officers involved in the crash acted with criminal negligence, according to his civil lawyer, Peter Ronai.

The NYPD did not respond to requests for comment Monday on the crash or the lawsuit.

The video also shows the period before the crashes, when the men raced down and across Randall Avenue and onto the sidewalk on their dirt bikes, which are not street legal.

Adalberto Gonzalez at the Bronx Hall of Justice on March 25, 2013. He was charged with reckless endangerment, reckless driving and resisting arrest following the Aug. 11 crash in Hunts Point that broke his leg and killed a fellow dirt biker.
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Their driving caused at least one car to veer out of the way, according to a criminal complaint.

Gonzalez is stopped at an intersection when the footage shows the police cruiser approach from behind, swerve to the right and knock him off the bike.

Back on his feet, Gonzalez then races down the sidewalk as an officer gives chase on foot and the cruiser pulls a U-turn, the video shows. Gonzalez then hops onto the back of Fernandez’s bike.

Moments later, the cruiser rounds a corner and rams the bike from behind, the footage shows.

"It came with such speed and force to hit him," said Carmen Gonzalez, the biker's mother. "I don't understand what was the reason."

The family has called for the officer who drove the car to be suspended and face criminal charges.

The Bronx DA’s office has declined to bring charges against the officer, deciding after an “extensive review of the evidence” that Fernandez’s death was accidental, according to a statement by spokesman Steven Reed.

“If there was any issue of negligence, it did not rise to the level of a crime and therefore was not presented to the grand jury,” Reed said.

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